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THE CHINA

JOURNAL

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CONTENTS

CHINESE STUDENTS IN DEFENCE OF THEIR NATION

THE VOLCANOES OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES

THE CHINA WAX AND, INSECT- WAX INDUSTRY IN SZECHWAN

SOME SEA 'PENG (PENNATU- LACEA) FROM AMOY ISLAND

"SMALL MONEY”.

ENTERTAINMENTS

FILBI Take This Woman," STARS: liedy Lamarr, Spencer

Tracy.

VERDICT: Weak Story, Good

Acting.

HEDY Lamarr's the woman in the case-and that's enough said for a lot of moviegoers!

For those of you who like a bit of acting thrown in for the price of your ticket, there's Spencer Tracy.

His role is a far cry from the admirable ones he's been handed in the last few years, but he manages to make the most of it · and to rescue the picture every Lime it bogs down.

Verree Teasdale is in there plich- Ing, too, and she gives a grand ac count of herself in a role that suits this fun actress to a T.

To get back to Hedy Lamarr, she looks even more gorgeous thun when she was a lady down in Algiers though her role docs not' demand much histrionic

The story in a

#Glamorous

hearted girl who

is saved from suleide by stalwart Spencer Tracy, an earnest young doctor trying hard get along.

Hedy Lamarr Axes that by taking him from his free clinle to join a crowd of hypocritical "sussiety" doc- tors.

You can imagine the terrific su pense of wondering whether the hero will find himself and whether Spencer and Hedy will find each other!

WHAT'S ON

TO-DAY

KING'S: "British Intelligence." QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "I Take This Woman." ORIENTAL: "The

Fighting

MAJESTIC: "Susannah of the Mounties.**

60th."

TO-MORROW

*"The Fighting

ORIENTAL

KING'S; "British Intelligence." MAJESTIC: "Susannah of the Mounties."

QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Take This Woman."

FILM: "British Intelligence.”

STARS:

Boris Karlog, Margaret

Lindsay.

VERDICT: Super-spics.

FILM: "Susannah

Mounties."

of the

STARS: Shirley Temple, Ron-

dolph Scott.

VERDICT: Canadian Melodrama..

SOLE survivor of a Red Indian massacre, Shirley Temple is adopted by handsome Ran- dolph Scott, in the Mounties' pill-box cap of the 1880's.

She then chums up with a Black- feet chief's son, and is never far away from the flerce prairie fighting.

She ultimately brings about a sen-

sible peace treaty..

It is all very vigorous, and Mar- garet Lockwood, J. Farrell Mac-

Donald and Maurice Moscovitch have

their chances.

So have the hordes of red men, with

war yells that suggested a Doga' Home,

If Shirley Initiates peace feelers in Europe this year, I shall not be very surprised.

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Hedy

FILM: "The Fighting 69th.” STARS; Pat O'Brien, James

Cagney.

VERDICT: Fighting Melodrama.

THE gorgeous Hedy Lamarr co-stars with our popular Spencer Tracy in "I Take this Woman" showing this week-end at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres,

This is the war's greatest

AN ably confected story of a rebellious private in a crack song Irish-American regiment who

makes the final expiation with AT last, the war has thrown up a really great

his own life.

are colourful though unconvincing.

The exploits of the central charac-song-"The Grandest Song er, Private Plunkett (J mes Cagney? of All"-magnificently sung brings tragic disaster to the platoon by a fine chorus and Louls He shows his defiance of authority, by Gracie Fields, supported in the front line, drinks on sentry

duty and displays cowardice in the Levy's band in the Anglo- French concert from Drury Lane face of the enemy.

The latter results in a sentence of recently. death being passed on him.

The writer is tubby, middle- by saves the whole regiment owing He set Britain singing in the However he escapes and eventual-aged, benign Mr. Fred Godfrey.

CLARKE Gable and Spencer Tracy are going to sing a duet. It will be to hla horoism. their first together, and will be solely The film is well produced although last war with "Tako Me Back to without the benefit of musical ac- there are several horrifying scenes of Dear Old Blighty." companiment.

which may war carnage wholesale The song will be a drinking song prove unwelcome to British audiences a smack of "The Lost Chord," a

His new song has everything- without much tune, rhythm or lyrics at the present moment. and will be delivered for a scene in

amack of Land of Hope and James Cagney gives a powerfully Glory"-sweep, inspiration and a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Boom good portrayal of the rebelllous pri- Town" wherein the two stars mise vate. Pat O'Brien is excellent in the fine high note to finish with. their

voices in a musical attempt in person of the understanding padre, He wrote it for Gracle, and he deter- Mr. Godfrey believed in it, too. order to upset Frank Morgan. Father Dully.

Both stars have sung briefly be-

mined that no one but Gracle should fore, Gable did a trio with Joan

it to her in

THIS is spy melodrama, with British and German agents Crawford and Franchot Tone in nounced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayeri Capri.thusiastle cable of

"THE Captain Is a Lady" is an-launch It. He and an each was the result. during the World War I period. Norma Shearer in "Idiot's Delight" on Rachel Crothers play, "Old Lady to or whistle. But it will most lice- This is not a song you will dance_ The film is unfolded in a somewhat Tracy still has that fisherman's song 31,"

The cast Includes Helen obvious story which eventually leads solo in "Captains Courageous" to his Broderick, Charles Coburn, Beulahy sweep Britain. to the unmasking of a super Ġerman | credit, and also sang a little of, Bondi and Billie Burke, Robert Sin- "Sweet Genevieve" in "Edison, The clair is director and Frederick Ste- Boris Karloff, king of cinema Mun,

phant producer. villians takes the leading role, ably supported by Margaret Lindsay.

spy.

ON the "Strike Up the Band" set

at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Judy Gar- land and Bill Tracy are doing a sceno from the "Nell of New Rochelle" number, a typical old- fashioned melodrama. Judy, the poor working girl, is being dined at Delmonico's

by villainous Squire Poultice.

Tracy was the youngster with the a changing-voice in "The Shop Around

Corner

He is made up to look

the

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as aged and scheming as any of the Gny Nineties villains. As Judy spurns his advances, he suddenly begins a mad

BBC seek perfect

woman

announcer

LIZABETH COWELL, B.B.C.'s No. 1 woman an- nouncer, and John Snagge, announcing chief, sit in B.B.C. office, day by day, looking for a woman they can't find.

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They want an announcer-they've interviewed scores of girls they've found no one.

Ideal Studio

THE whole show is excellent, be- cause:

1. Drury Lane is the Ideal Yadio. studio-in splendid contrast to the mushy acoustics we heard during the Paris Opera House broadcast.

2. The B.B.C. allowed Gracie to overrun for thirteen minutes, and only faded out when the change over of wavelength made it imperative. 3. Basil Dean, os compere,

much improved. His phrases are sonorous, but hit the right note.

4. Chevalier was allowed to sing.

DARRYL F. Zanuck announces that John Ford will direct at least two of the new 20th Century-Fox super productions for next season's Snagge said: "There's nothing wrong. Some of the girls programme, the first being "How we've seen-especially those from the stage--are excellent. But Green Was My Valley," the best Judy has trouble keeping out of his reach, meanwhile singing Marle I want a girl who's outstanding-somebody with personality, Richard Llewellyn.

selling noval of South

Wales Dressler's song, "Heaven Will Pro voice, presence, poise.".

Another big-scale feature tect the Working Girl." She wear

by

which

"And you can't find her-so you're, At first they told her (by phone) Ford is likely to direct is the story # dreas reaching nearly to the floor, giving up?" He replied: "I can't there was no chance then they of a professional soldier, Sergeant of 1800 style, Just as the Squire is find her-but I'm not yet giving up. asked to see her. "They asked ques- Som Dreben; who fought in the involved in his ankle-length cape, girl,

girl. We've compiled a short list of ing from 7 a.m. till midnight-did I in Mexico and the World War. He falls dat on his face.

possible for further testing.

mind being shifted round the coun- Dreben actually existed, and several surprised at not being Meanwhile, Miss Sherry Martin, try-did I speak languages could 1 times came in contact with General turns and looks down at her, doctor's daughter from Yorkshire read out a programme and make it Pershing, who called him the "One luckless pursuer. Starting to laugh, and would-be announcer, gave a sound different did I know about Man Army." This may be the title. she says:

first-hand account of her ordeal-by-music and composers' names? They of the film. "Ah, now I know why they always interview.

were so nice... put those long black capes on the villains. It was just to give the girls with their long dresses a chancej In this chasing business."

about to grab her, bla feet become There's a job going-for the right tions," she said. "Did I mind work- Philippines, in the Boxer Rebellion.

has

"FOREIGN Correspondent" been chosen as the title for the-new Walter Wanger production, inspired by Vincent Shecan's "Personal HIS- tory." It features Joel McCrea in the title-role, with Laraine Day. Herbert Marshall, Albert Bazerman, Robert Benchley, Eduardo `Clannelli, and Edmund Gwenn heading the large cast directed by Alfred Hitch- cocit. The aim will be released! through United Artists.

MAUREEN O'Sullivan has' rented a home somewhere in Canada, and plans to stay there between pictures, to be near her husband, John Far- row, now serving on a lieutenant in the British Navy, and on convoy duty between Canadian and Atlantic ports. She leaves for Canada as soon as her role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's| "One Came Home" is completed.

THE old fishing schooner of "Cap- tains Courageous, will ride the soa in a storm once more,· The boat has been refitted to serve as the'schooner) used in an exciting sequence In! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Cap

TE BILLIE Burke, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, and famous M.G.M. star photographed recently with her daughter Patricia Ziegfeld . Stephenson, and her grand-daughter, Florence Ziegfeld Stephenson:"

HUNT Stromberg will produce Tropical Hurricane" for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer with Rober Telor and Lana Turner in the leading phics. two

Stromberg has just complet God"

Miss

new productions, "Susan and Pride and Prejudice," Turner is now working in "To Own the World," while Taylor recently comploted "Waterloo Bridge," in which he is co-starred with Vivien Leigh.

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OLYMPE Bradna has returned to Hollywood to start her role of the native girl sweetheart of Jon Hall In Edward Small's production "South of Pago Pago," ‹ Alfred E. Green is directing a cast which also includes Victor McLaglen, Frances Farmer, Gene Lockhart and Douglass/ Dum- brilio. The film will be selensed through United Atists.

WILLIAM Powell and Myxia Loy will next be co-starred by M-G-M in "I Love You Again," which W. 9. Van Dyke II will direct, with "Law- rence Weingarten bride

Inst leaming of the two

In "Another Thin Man"

also

whe

rected

by Van Dyke. Walter Fidgton will have a featured role in "**. Low You Again, and will be ready to inte the new film as soon as hepletes work-in ““Nick-Carter;in-Hod